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Education, Training & Workforce Development
The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
M. Ogawa et al. (19P20)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 268-270
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1371
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In the Tohoku University Heliac, transition to the improved mode has been observed when the plasma is biased with a hot cathode inserted into the plasma. Ion temperature measurement using high-resolution spectroscopy demonstrated that when the plasma was biased and transited to the improved mode, the ion temperature increased or was kept almost constant, and the ion density also increased. The total stored energy (the products of temperature and density, neTe, niTi) increased in the improved mode. In neoclassical theory, nonlinearity in ion viscosity plays a key role in the transition. The ion viscosity estimated from the measured ion temperature was consistent with the predictions of the neoclassical theory.
